We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Waterford "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Waterford
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Waterford Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Waterford
Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Waterford Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Waterford
Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Waterford Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Waterford
The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Waterford When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Waterford
To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Waterford At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Waterford
"When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Waterford A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Waterford
The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Waterford "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Waterford
Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Waterford "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Waterford
Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Waterford I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Waterford
"Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Waterford A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Waterford
